Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in the South East

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 155 172
Rank change year-on-year -72 +17 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 6 9 15
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.090% 0.26% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.86% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 10
10th Percentile £482 £339 £321
25th Percentile £517 £443 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £540 £599
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -9.81% +4.13%
75th Percentile £606 £634 £608
90th Percentile £625 £659 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £565
% change year-on-year - -11.50% -5.83%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,784 1,045 1,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.73% 29.87% 24.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,175 676 854
10th Percentile £266 £222 £307
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year - -2.68% -2.14%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 48 33
10th Percentile £21.35 £14.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £31.25 £15.50 £17.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £18.82 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +271.94% -37.27% +11.11%
75th Percentile £83.75 £32.12 £53.75
90th Percentile £104.00 £48.55 £61.49
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year +45.61% +7.46% -27.88%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the South East

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South East over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -47 3 £600 +4.35% 1
Buckinghamshire -37 2 £575 -11.54%
Hampshire -37 2 - - 2
Berkshire -29 1 £625 +25.00%
West Sussex - 1 £459 -
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Pentaho
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Mockito
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 1 (16.67%) JPA
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) FinOps
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Talend